"scissors" ("----- >8 -----") can be automatically added to commit
messages by setting commit.verbose = true. Prevent this from interfering
with trailer calculations by automatically skipping over scissors,
instead of (usually) treating them as a comment.
---
commit.c | 13 +++++++++----
t/t7513-interpret-trailers.sh | 17 +++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
index 041cfa5a9..9a7b41d09 100644
--- a/commit.c
+++ b/commit.c
@@ -1701,10 +1701,10 @@ int is_scissors_line(const char *line)
/*
* Inspect the given string and determine the true "end" of the log message, in
* order to find where to put a new Signed-off-by: line. Ignored are
- * trailing comment lines and blank lines, and also the traditional
- * "Conflicts:" block that is not commented out, so that we can use
- * "git commit -s --amend" on an existing commit that forgot to remove
- * it.
+ * trailing comment lines and blank lines. To support "git commit -s
+ * --amend" on an existing commit, we also ignore "Conflicts:". To
+ * support "git commit -v", we truncate at "---- >8 ----" and similar
+ * scissors lines.
*
* Returns the number of bytes from the tail to ignore, to be fed as
* the second parameter to append_signoff().
@@ -1723,6 +1723,11 @@ int ignore_non_trailer(const char *buf, size_t len)
else
next_line++;
+ if (is_scissors_line(&buf[bol])) {
+ if (!boc)
+ boc = bol;
+ break;
+ }
if (buf[bol] == comment_line_char || buf[bol] == '\n') {
/* is this the first of the run of comments? */
if (!boc)
diff --git a/t/t7513-interpret-trailers.sh b/t/t7513-interpret-trailers.sh
index 4dd1d7c52..d88d4a4ff 100755
--- a/t/t7513-interpret-trailers.sh
+++ b/t/t7513-interpret-trailers.sh
@@ -1258,4 +1258,21 @@ test_expect_success 'with no command and no key' '
test_cmp expected actual
'
+test_expect_success 'with scissors' '
+ cat >expected <<-EOF &&
+ my subject
+
+ review: Brian
+ sign: A U Thor <author@xxxxxxxxxxx>
+ # ------------------------ >8 ------------------------
+ ignore this
+ EOF
+ git interpret-trailers --trailer review:Brian >actual <<-EOF &&
+ my subject
+ # ------------------------ >8 ------------------------
+ ignore this
+ EOF
+ test_cmp expected actual
+'
+
test_done
--
2.12.3.3.g39c96af